Contact/Relationship Management

• core of the system is an advanced contact manager.
• contacts can funnel into the manager from the front end automatically or from the back end manually.
• heuristic duplicate handling.
• contact change logs.
• include any number of addresses, urls, phone numbers.
• notes
• website accounts and all contact history saved in a single location.
• easily extensible to include any other kind of linked contact information. 
  

Content Management

• Preview/Publish architecture
  
• right on the page "hotspot" editing
  
• WYSIWYG webpage editor 
• Image Manager and Editor
• extensive list of content components
  
• switch themes without changing content
  

Community Features

• login account management tied to central contact record
• group and level based authentication
• mark sections password protected
• discussion forums with watching and notifications
• blogs with watching, notifications and comment system
• photo gallery
  

Social Networking

• friend lists
• friend requests
  
• invitations
• web based private messaging with black lists 

Sales Funnel

• gateway pages with downloads in exchange for contact info or mailing list signup.
• all contact forms funnel data incrementally to the contact manager allowing you to watch as relationships develop automatically over time.
  

News Letter Manager

• create double opt in email lists
• enable auto subscribe and unsubscribe features on the front end
• tightly integrated with the contact manager
• schedule mailings in advance
• contacts can sign up to multiple lists. 
  

Installation and Maintenance

• complete web based setup program that creates a functional site in a few minutes.
• import contacts from CSV files using an included command line utility.
• database schemas are versioned and can be upgraded from any version to any version in place. 
  
• site content, configuration and contact lists can be exported and imported from one database to another.
  

Security

• automatic URL encryption.
• automatic SQL injection protection in most cases.
• form field obfuscation.
  
• form field "spam-pot" protection.
  
• extensive use of .htaccess protections.
• custom session mangement.
  

Extension System

• developers can create extensions to add new front end features
• contact manager can be extended through extensions.
  

Rapid Development

• formVista Markup Lanuage (FVML) increases development speed and maintainability.
•  role separation improves efficiency (designers, developers, content creators and administrators can work independently and in parallel.)

Designer Friendly

• can accomodate any website design.
• minimally intrusive template language with an extremely simple syntax.
  
• minimum time to get up to speed.
  
• allows overrides of stock themes for minor tweaks.
• allows implementation of entirely new themes that can be managed on a site by site basis.
  
• CSS compliant.
  
• complete structure and approach for "chopping up" existing sites and turning them into a formVista theme.